After a fatal gondola clang killed two young mommies and a 9-month-old child last-place month, a photo taken at the scene of the clang is bringing peace to the families and friends of those involved.

23-year-old Hannah Simmons was driving in her hometown of Gainesville, Georgia, with her newborn daughter, Alannah, and 28 -year-old friend Lauren Buteau when “shes lost” limit of her vehicle.

The wreck generated an extensive backup on the highway, justification numerous moves to be stuck, at the compassion of emergency gangs. One operator, Anisa Gannon, was on her method to piece, and decided to snap photographs of the background as proof that congestion became her late.

Anisa afterwards pictured the photo to her aunt, Tara Noble, who instantly attended more than merely a appalling gondola accident and a mess of cleaning process crews.

Amidst the situation of rubble seemed a beam of light, glittering from the sky onto the sidewalk. Further, two small orbs can be seen within the beamalmost as if the two women were foreman home.

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She was rocked to her core after accompanying the epitome, and appeared compelled to reach out to the families of the clang preys. Taras hope was that the photo might accompanied them a sense of treaty, and help them through their grieving process.

I dont believes in co-occurrences, especially the two lights inside that bigger light-headed. It wreaked the families quietnes, whether its a light or not, Tara showed. Its indefinable, basically, and it does look like them leaving .

Hannahs mother, Judy Simmons, says that the photo has been the ultimate endowment in their duration of healing.

That picture was taken for a reasonto give me sanity, Judy supposed. Hannah was also our friend, and shes looking down from heaven now .

Laurens aunt, Jodie Carter, said that she was completely speechless. She could have never imagined potential impacts that a photograph could have on their families.

It took my breath away. Chills enveloped my figure. And then a treaty came over me, she excused. I verify God taking them up to heaven. Their feels, their orbs are up there. No other explanation .

Those who dont believe in Jesus Christ, and His peace which outstrips all understanding, may discount the portrait. But even if it is a glare, one thing is certainour God loves his beings, and He is the almighty comforter. The gigantic comfort that the womens categories have experienced amidst tragedy is a true evidence to the love of Jesus Christ.

Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their own vehicles and driving skills to deliver the core service, according to an MIT CEEPR study examining the economics of the two app platforms.

The report catalyses the debate about conditions for workers on gig economy platforms, and raises serious questions about the wider societal impacts of tax avoiding, VC-funded tech giants.

The study, entitled The Economics of Ride-Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes, and which was carried out by the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, surveyed more than 1,100 Uber and Lyft ride-hailing drivers combined with detailed vehicle cost information — factoring in costs such as fuel, insurance, maintenance and repairs — to come up with a median profit per hour worked.

The upshot? The researchers found profit from ride-hail driving to be “very low”. On an hourly basis, the median profit was $3.37 per hour, with 74% of drivers earning less than the minimum wage in the state where they operate.

They also found a median driver generates $0.59 per mile of driving but incurs costs of $0.30 per mile; and almost a third (30 per cent) of drivers were found to incur expenses exceeding their revenue or to be losing money for every mile they drive.

The research also looked at how ride-hailing profits are taxed, and suggests that in the US a majority of driver profits are going untaxed owing to how mileage deduction is handled for tax purposes — suggesting Uber and Lyft’s business are denuding the public purse too.

From the study:

On a monthly basis, mean profit is $661/month (median $310). Drivers are eligible to use a Standard Mileage Deduction for tax purposes ($0.54/mile in 2016) which far exceeds median costs per mile of $0.30/mile. Because of this deduction, most ridehailing drivers are able to declare profits that are substantially lower. Mean drivers who use a Standard Mileage Deduction would declare taxable profit of $175 rather than the $661 earned. These numbers suggest that approximately 74% of driver profit is untaxed.

The authors add that if their $661/month mean profit is representative then the US’ Standard Mileage Deduction facilitates “several billion in untaxed income for hundreds of thousands of ride-hailing drivers nationwide”.

So what does the study tell us about the ride-hailing business model? “It tells us that it’s a shitty place to work,” says Mark Tluszcz, co-founder and CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners who has described the gig economy model as the modern day sweatshop, and says his VC firm made a conscious decision not to invest in gig economy companies because the model is exploitative.

“It tells you that it’s a great place if you’re a company. It’s really a poor place to be an employee or be a worker.”

The exploitative asymmetry of ride-hailing platforms comes because workers have a certain amount of fixed costs but the platform intermediary can just hike its commission at will and lower the service cost to the end user whenever it wants to increase competitiveness vs a rival business.

“At the end of the day there are a certain amount of fixed costs [for drivers],” says Tluszcz. “You have to buy a car, you have to get insurance, you have to pay for gas… And if you as an intermediary, which those platforms are, are taking an increasing amount of commission — 10%, 15%, now 20 in most of their markets — and then you’re using the price of the trip as a way of beating your competitor… then you as a driver are sitting there with basically all of your fixed costs and your income is going down and frankly the only way to cover your costs is to spend more hours in the car.

“Which is frankly what’s clearly illustrated by this study. These people have to spend so much time to cover their costs when you break it down to an hourly revenue, it’s a pitiful amount. And by the way you have no social coverage because you’ve got to take care of that yourself.”

At the time of writing neither Uber not Lyft had responded to a request for comment on the MIT study. But an Uber spokesperson told The Guardian the company believes the research methodology and findings are “deeply flawed”, adding: “We’ve reached out to the paper’s authors to share our concerns and suggest ways we might work together to refine their approach.”

Tluszcz was quick to dispatch that critique. “MIT is not some second tier organization that did this study,” he points out. “For me that’s a reference moment when MIT says look, there’s an issue here… There’s something wrong in the model and we can tolerate it for a period of time but ultimately we’re creating this lost generation of people.”

“These business are built on situations in the market that are not realistic,” he tells TechCrunch. “They took advantage of a hole in legislation… Governments let that happen. And it made all of sudden services cheaper. But people have to eat. People have to live. And ultimately there’s only 100% of a cake.

“Cabbies in the UK are not millionaires; they make a decent living. But they make a decent living because there’s a certain price-point to offer the service. And in every industry you have that. There is a certain fair price point to be able to live in that industry… And clearly right now, in the ride-sharing businesses, you don’t have it.”

In Europe, where Uber’s business has faced a series of legal challenges, the company has begun offering some subsidized insurance products for platform workers — including one for Uber Eats couriers across Europe and a personal injury and insurance product for drivers in the UK.

In January in the UK it also announced a safety cap on the number of consecutive hours drivers on its platform can accept trips, after coming under rising political and legal pressure on safety and working conditions.

Last year Uber also lost its first appeal against an employment tribunal that judged a group of Uber drivers to be workers, not self-employed contractors as it had claimed — meaning they are entitled to workers rights such as holiday and sick pay.

Uber also had its license to operate in London withdrawn last fall, with the local transport regulator citing concerns about safety and corporate responsibility as key considerations for not renewing the company’s private hire vehicle license.

Tluszcz’s view is that such moves prefigure a more major shift incoming in Europe that could cement permanent roadblocks to business models that function via intentional worker exploitation.

“The flaw in the [gig economy] model as a worker is so big that it seems to be quite clear that European governments are going to be looking at this and saying this is just not the European ethos. It’s just not,” he argues. “There’s going to be a moment when all these things are clashing. And I think it’s a cultural clash that we have really, between European values of equity and American values of just pure market capitalism.

“You can’t expect somebody making $3.37 an hour to take a part of that to contribute to retirement and social coverage. What the hell do you live on?” he adds.

“We’re creating the next lost generation of people who simply don’t have enough money to live and those companies are fundamentally enabling it under the premise that they’re offering a cheaper service to consumers… And I just don’t think Europe will put up with this.”

Last month the UK government confirmed its intent to act on this area by announcing a package of labor market reforms intended to respond to changes driven by the rise of gig economy platforms. It dubbed the strategy a ‘Good Work Plan’ — billing it as an expansion of workers rights and saying “millions” more workers would get new day-one rights, coupled with a tighter enforcement regime on platforms and companies to ensure they are providing sick and holiday pay rights.

“We are proud to have record levels of employment in this country but we must also ensure that workers’ rights are always upheld,” said the UK prime minister, also emphasizing that her goal was to build “an economy that works for everyone”.

It’s likely to publish more detail on the employment law reform later this year. But the direction of travel for gig economy platforms in Europe looks clear: Away from being freely able to exploit legal loopholes and towards a much more tightly managed framework of employment and workforce welfare regulations to ensure that underlying support structures (such as the UK’s national minimum wage) aren’t just being circumvented by clever engineering and legal positioning.

“This for me is an inherent dilemma one has between capitalism and some level of socialism which we have in Europe,” adds Tluszcz. “This is a clash of two fundamentally different views of the world and ultimately as a company you have to be a company that views your role in society as one of being a contributor — and tech companies can’t hide behind the fact; they must do the same.

“And unfortunately all these ride-sharing businesses, and including most of these gig economy companies, are just trying to take advantage of holes and frankly I don’t see them at all looking at their reason to be as at least having a component of ‘I’m good for the society in which I operate’. They don’t. They just simply don’t care.

“That’s a dilemma we have as consumers, because on the one hand we like the fact that it’s cheap. But we wish that people could all have a decent living.”

Whether US companies will be forced into a less exploitative relationship with their US workers remains to be seen.

Tluszcz’s view is that it will need some kind of government intervention for these types of companies to rethink how their models operate and who they are impacting.

“Tech companies frankly have an equal amount of responsibility to be great corporate citizens. And right now it feels — particularly because many of these tech companies are born in the US — it almost feels like this Americanism about them says I don’t have to be a good corporate citizen. I’m going to take advantage of the world for me and my shareholders,” he says.

“I’m a capitalist but I do think there’s some moral guidance you have to have about the business you’re building. And the US tech companies, around the world — certainly in Europe — are being highly criticized… Where is your moral compass? And unfortunately, today, sitting here, you have to say they lost it.”

Update: A Lyft spokesperson has now emailed the following statement in response to our request for comment: “Drivers are an integral part of Lyft’s success. An ever-growing number of individuals around the country are using Lyft as a flexible way to earn income, and we will continue to engage with our driver community to help them succeed. We have not yet reviewed this study in detail, but an initial review shows some questionable assumptions.”

Tesla Engine CEO Elon Musk, who is facing intense scrutiny over a fatal crash implying one of his self-driving vehicles, has secreted an ambitious brand-new master plan and has redoubled down on his defense of the safety of the autopilot feature.

Musks master plan proportion deux, published on Wednesday, provides information about how he intends to reinvent mass transit systems, integrate stunning solar ceiling into his automobiles and build self-driving buses and trucks.

The report comes 10 years after the tech billionaire published the first Tesla Motors Master Plan, which unveiled the cars that became the Tesla 3 athletics sedan and Model S four-door house car.

The release of two seconds part of a master plan comes amid a federal investigation into a May crash that killed a 40 -year-old man. It is suggested that the motorist, Joshua Brown, was exploiting autopilot, a brand-new self-driving mode that is still in a testing chapter. Tesla claimed the technology could not distinguish between a white-hot truck and a luminous sky.

After two subsequent clangs involving the autopilot method, Tesla, which has faced interrogates from the United states senate, said it had no designs to disable the feature.

In his new plan, Musk said he would build a smoothly integrated and beautiful solar-roof-with-battery product that merely operates, entitling the individual as their own practicality, and then proportion that around the world. That intends: One telling knowledge, one station, one assistance contact, one telephone app, he wrote.

Musk said the Model 3 for consumers will eventually include a compact SUV option and a new kind of pickup truck.

The CEO further intends to expand the technology beyond customer a motor vehicle is heavy-duty trucks and high passenger-density metropolitan shipping, in agreement with the master plan. Those are both in early stages of development and should be ready for unveiling next year, Musk wrote.

We conceive the Tesla Semi will extradite a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo freight, while increasing safety and attaining it really fun to operate, he added.

His technology will also allow for buses to become smaller and for bus drivers to become fleet administrators, Musk replied, adding that this system aimed at improving traffic congestion and would allow buses to take beings instantly to their destinations.

Eventually, all Tesla vehicles will be fully self-driving, which means that even if a system in the car breaks down, the car would still be able to drive itself, in agreement with the plan.

He appeared to address those concerns in the master plan, saying that Tesla decided to deploy incomplete autonomy now, rather than waiting, because when used properly, it is already greatly safer than a person driving by themselves and it would therefore be morally reprehensible to wait liberate simply for dread of bad press or some mercantile calculation of legal liability.

Since the gate-crash, Musk has repeatedly pointed out that Browns death was the first known fatality in simply over 130 million miles of the autopilot facet, and he has also slammed press coverage, noting that 1.3 m people succumb in automobile accidents each year.

Musks defensive Twitter rants, which some have called insensitive following the completion of a terrible extinction, offered a case study in how not to handle crisis, according to some experts.

Addressing concerns about the security of making consumers use a beta form of autopilot, Musk further wrote: This is not beta software in any normal feel of the word. Every release going on in here extensive internal validation before it contacts any purchasers. It is announced beta in order to decrease complacency and indicate that it will continue to improve.

Musk has been teasing the release of the new master plan on Twitter in recent eras, writing on Tuesday that he planned to draw an all-nighter to finish it.

The document too advertised expanded sharing abilities, necessitating drivers at work or on vacation could include their vehicles to a shared fleet for others to use, which would generate income, greatly offsetting and at times potentially surpassing the monthly loan or lease cost.

He wrote, When true-life self-driving is approved by regulators, it will mean that they are likely to summon your Tesla from pretty much anywhere. Once it picks you up, you will be able to sleep, read or do anything else enroute to your destination.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is set to revolution the face of … cycling?

In a series of Friday afternoon tweets, the totally not-a-Bond-villain CEO made clear that his proposed system of underground tunnels will not in fact be focused on whisking cars around. Instead, he insisted, they’ll be mainly for pedestrians and cyclists.

He then clarified that the system “[will] still transport cars, but only after all personalized mass transit needs are met.”

Boring Co urban loop system would have 1000’s of small stations the size of a single parking space that take you very close to your destination & blend seamlessly into the fabric of a city, rather than a small number of big stations like a subway

While the idea of creating a bold and new (underground) frontier for traffic jams always seemed a bit out there, Musk’s latest iteration is equally a head scratcher. I mean, if it’s all about efficiencies, then maybe we should just invest in better bike-lane infrastructure and existing public transit?

Oh, wait, the change is not about efficiency at all — at least according to Musk. Instead, it comes down to something else entirely. “It’s a matter of courtesy & fairness,” continued his tweet. “If someone can’t afford a car, they should go first.”

And just what will this fantastical future look like? We’re so glad you asked. That’s because Musk also did us the favor of posting a mockup video of his underground pedestrian paradise.

In the blink of an eye, life can go from peachy to totally disastrous.

Whether it’s a car accident that miraculously didn’t take lives, or something less dangerous like dropping a family heirloom down the drain, close calls with disaster can leave us holding our breath. And because these 20 people you’re about to see have narrowly escaped their predicaments, it’s clear that they have guardian angels looking out for them.

1. They say you should always check the ATM before inserting your card, and for good reason.

20. After this shark took a bite, thankfully he decided that this lucky lady didn’t taste too good.

The 17 -year-old Canadian swimmer was a great hope for golden in 1968 but she could only administer silver-tongued, and observed the hurting of demolish nearly too much to bear

On a cold, rainy February morning in 1988, Elaine Tanner was alone. She sat on the jagged stones overlooking the Burrard Inlet in West Vancouver, staring out at the water. The curves tempted a woman in despair.

I felt like there was no hope, she told the Guardian. Nowhere to go.

Twenty years had elapsed since Mighty Mouse as the 5ft 3in Tanner was dubbed by a nation that adored her stepped onto the starting blocks with amber in her sees. She was Canadas greatest hope for a float amber award at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, but that never occurred. After two decades of misery over is inadequate to win that honour, Tanner examined out at the water. The tide made brutal brandishes up onto the stones below. She pondered what it would be like to dive into the liquid one final epoch, to be broom up in the current and attracted under, never to be seen again.

She depicted her own demise. Somehow, it seemed like the perfect route for a former dive champion to go. The little girl who had invested countless hours chasing an Olympic dream would become the persecuted ex-athlete who matched her death under the wavings of the western Canada waters.

She thought it would be an appropriate outcome to her story.

***

In the weeks leading up to the 1968 Olympics, there was talk about Mighty Mouse making three goldens, and the occurrence that seemed to be the most wonderful wager was the 100 m backstroke, Tanners specialty. She knew the challenger well, having reigned most of the field for a good part of two years. Kaye Hall, a 17 -year-old American who had been a competitor since they were both 12, was among the challengers. Tanner couldnt remember a era when molted lost to her.

When the final arrived on 23 October 1968, Tanner stood on the bricks and began to feel the pressure of a nation weighing on her shoulders. Suddenly this hasten experienced different than any other. One single design swim through her head.

What if I lose?

She felt her muscles tense up. Her body was beginning to shake, and powerlessness pas her, like all the fortitude had been sapped out of her. Terror swept over her. The pres was weeping her down.

Tanner tried to push it all away as the grease-gun set off and she dived into the liquid. The brand-new Canadian national swim tutor had advised her to start off gradually, to save her strength for the kick a strategy with which she didnt exactly concur. Hall was among the contestants who got off to a huge make at the shift, and Tanner could sense that she might not be able to make up the difference. She churned with all her might, closing the spread vastly down the extend, but she ran out of pool.

Hall finished a half-second before Tanner, in a world-record time of 1:06.2, the tips of her thumbs touching the wall just before Tanner shaped it there. She came up for breath, appearing the gravity of win. Canada gasped in disappointment.

She clambered out of the reserve, dripping soaked, and drew eye contact with Anne Walton, her best friend on the Canadian swim team. They approached one another, and Tanner fell into Waltons arms.

The medal ceremony, the press conference everything there is gone by in a blur. In the years that followed she would recollect nothing of it, simply that she used straying around in a trance-like commonwealth until a being reputation Harry Jerome wiped her out of the building. Jerome knew all too well what Tanner was going through, having descended short of Olympic beliefs as a favourite in the 100 m in the 1964 Tokyo Tournament. He took her out for a beverage, the first booze that has in the past touched her cheeks. It was Jeromes way of doing: Its OK. This is a moment to celebrate. Dont be ashamed about triumphing a silver medal.

The gesture took away Tanners anguish for a short while, but the celebration ended there. The headline in one Canadian newspaper the next day was: Tanner fails gold.

The silver medal molted earned in the 100 m backstroke ended a 40 -year medal drought for Canadas swim team, and she was the first Canadian girl to deserve a award in swimming. But nothing of that mattered.

In the days that followed, Tanner had gone on to win another silver medal and a bronze, constituting her the first female swimmer in Canadian Olympic history to take home three medals.

And hitherto all anyone recollected was that shed lost something on gold.

Tanner rendered from Mexico City to her mothers Vancouver home. But even those parts little consolation. The empathy and approval molted hoped to find there was absent, replaced by the following paragraph displeasure. In one of the only gossips she “wouldve been” have with her mothers about the Olympic performance, Elaine Tanner afterwards remembered being told: Well, it wasnt very fun for us, you know.

She left home soon afterwards, lost and distraught, with nowhere to turn. Her life became a downward spiral, ended only momentarily by lights of lighter. She married in her early 20 s and had two children, but the wedding melted then nine years later. Tanner and her husband, Ian Nahrgang, divorced in 1980, each agreeing to take imprisonment of one child. Nahrgang and their son, Scott, endeavoured to Prince George, a nine-hour drive away. Their two-year-old daughter, Shannon, was so disheartened at being held separately from her brother that Tanner had to make a choice.

She announced her ex-husband Ian, who refused to let Scott leave home. And so Elaine did what she would come to call the hardest the actions of my life. She mailed her daughter north, to Prince George, so that Shannon would be reunited with her brother and leader. I hollered barrels, Tanner would later recall.

Alone again, Tanners life punched a brand-new low-grade. She traveled across the Canadian country, searching for something she couldnt fairly identify. There were other males to come in and out of her life, but nothing of them deposit around for long. Shed interviewed for jobs in retail sales, in sports marketing, exchanging encyclopaedium, as a concoction waitress and a sport head; no one would hire her. She designed sports apparel and a line of jewelry, but couldnt come up with the money to get started. Tanner couldnt find any sort of steady run and was losing her will to live.

Along the style, Tanner shed herself of the Olympic awards that seemed to weigh her down for most of early adulthood. Theyd been stashed in a sewing paraphernalium in the back of her auto. She gladly sided them over to the British Columbia Hall of Fame, freeing herself of the physical reminders of her failure.

To be honest, it was almost luggage, she enunciated. It wasnt genuinely facilitating me to move my life on in a positive direction. I didnt have a problem getting rid of them.

Tanner was meandering through life, a life that was quickly forgetting all gist. By the springtime of 1988, around the time of her 37 th birthday, Tanner noticed herself sitting on the rocks staring out at a body of water, ready to give up.

She only couldnt bringing herself to dive in.

Something inside of me, she remembered, “its like” a bit voice: Elaine, theres a ground for everything. I didnt know what that symbolized, but there was a little expres that responded: One day, youll understand; it will make sense.

She turned away from the irrigate, stumbling up the stones and back to her car. She had nowhere to go and nothing to do, but Tanner opened the door, sat down in the motorists tush and started the engine.

***

A few months legislated. It was the summer of 1988, and she reluctantly agreed to go on a blind date.

Thats when Tanner met a being named John Watt, his life serving as a arena analyse on psychological sorenes. “His fathers” had recently died from cancer before his mother remarried and was killed by a wino operator. Not long after that, Watt and a police officer detected their own bodies of his only brother, who kill herself. Whatever stability Watt found in the aftermath was splintered by a divorce and a series of business projects that were on the verge of collapsing when he gratified Tanner.

They didnt precisely hit it off. Watt was attracted to her smile and species attentions, but he has recognised that part of what gleaned him to her was a linkage he felt to the anguish that radiated off of her. She was extremely in pain and hurt, he recalled. She was smiling,[ but] with my background, I could see through it.

He watched Tanner pick at a muffin with her fingernails, as if she was savoring each morsel and trying to make it last longer. When that time was over, Watt peeled off two $100 invoices and sided them to the pretty maiden with the happy sees. Tanner took the money, then clambered onto a beat-up 10 -speed bicycle and pedaled off. Watt watched her go.

I find sorry for her at the time, he remembered. I truly got a lot of empathy for her. She was very thin. To be quite honest, I was quite a bit worried welfare.

They went on a few more years, and Tanner began to open up to him. Watt received himself thinking: I dont know if I requirement this luggage on top of my own.

They floated apart after a few cases times, eventually coming back together in San Francisco. So inaugurated a tour that took them from California to Colorado to Maine. From the United States to Eastern Canada to British Columbia.

They married in 1993, but she was still unable to find work or much stability. The sadness that had percolated so much of her adulthood continued to follow her like a dark cloud.

Then one sunny daylight in 2011, as Tanners 60 th birthday approached, she was driving alone in Ontario when a familiar carol, The Impossible Dream, came on the radio.

To dream the impossible daydream/ To fight the unbeatable foe/ To bear the unbearable sorrow/ To run where the fearles do not go

The song, cleared famous by Frank Sinatra, had been a favourite of hers in the summer of the mid-1 960 s, when, as a teenager, she used to train in the swimming pool while dreaming of the Olympics. It was as if Tanner had traveled in time, and she could vividly remember what it had been like to pursue a dream.

This is my quest/ To follow that hotshot/ No matter how hopeless/ No matter how far…

It dawned on her, in that moment, that shed wasted so much better epoch chasing a gold medal that shed forgotten that there were other honors out there. There were other seeks, so to speak. Quest beyond amber. The phrase popped into Tanners honcho in that moment, and she knew that it meant something.

When she eventually convened up with Watt that day, Tanner was in tears. They were rends of hope.

***

Tanner is better now. Shes not perfect, but shes better. Shes spotted hope, and thats a great target to be after years and years of walking around in despair.

Shes a grandmother, and her adult children have allowed her back into their lives. She endured a 2011 automobile disintegrate, in which she was trapped inside her vehicle while Watt, her husband of 18 years, raced to help young preys in a nearby academy bus. Shes written a childrens notebook and is working on a memoir about her direction toward amber. She even has a website, called, of course, Quest Beyond Gold.

Tanner gazes back at her tour without any feel of unhappines. She is open to telling her legend to anyone who asks, despite her private sort, and shes hugged the struggles.

Losing may have killed her nightmare, but it didnt kill her. We all follow out challenges and contends in “peoples lives”, she adds. It doesnt matter what you do, we all face loss. Its part of life. Its more what you do with it than the adversity. Thats why I wanted to share my story.

A few years ago, Tanner was mining through one of her suitcases when she stumbled upon two of her Olympic medals, which she had forgotten had been returned to her by the British Columbia Hall of Fame. She just realise them.

You know, John, this isnt me any more, she remembers telling him. Ive let it go. I told athletic croak. Lets auction them off, then exploit whatever is raised to do something good.

Watt agreed, and the medallions were sold, along with a swimming trunks from Tanners Olympic year. The husband who purchased its consideration of this agenda item, a retired dentist, ceased up donating them to the Swimming Hall of Fame.

Soon enough, an amazing thing happened. When Tanner seemed back on her Olympic experience, she saw success instead of collapse. The public view soon followed, as its first year faded the reminiscences of failed gold and record embarked retelling a narrative of the 17 -year-old girl who drew home three awards the most embellished swimmer in the stories of Canadian float to that point.

Now I can look back, and Im so proud of what I reached, and what I reached, she adds. Its really its significant message.

One that shes lastly ready to spread.

In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In Australia, the crisis support assistance Lifeline is on 13 11 14.

Major League Baseball has been hit by a double tragedy after two actors were killed in separate vehicle disintegrates in their native Dominican Republic

Major League Baseball has been hit by a double tragedy after two participates were killed in separate automobile clangs in their native Dominican Republic.

The Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura and the former Cleveland Indians third baseman Andy Marte both croaked on Sunday. Ventura was 25 and Marte was 33. In a bitter construction of fate, Martes final MLB game was against the Royals, whose starting pitcher the working day in August 2014 was Ventura.

Ventura was known for his fastball, which could top 100 mph, and his fiery temper. He helped the Royals to trounced the New York Mets in the 2015 World Series and likewise played in the Fall Classic in 2014 during his rookie season. In the 2014 World Series Ventura was one of the Royals good musicians, highlighted by his seven shutout innings in Game 6. The Royals lost the sequence 4-3 to the San Francisco Giants.

Ventura assembled the Royal in 2013 and had a 38 -3 1 enter with the team. Our prayers right now are with Yordanos family as we sorrow this young mans elapsing, said here Royals general manager, Dayton Moore, in a statement. He was so young and so talented, full of youth excitement and ever fetched a smile to everyone he interacted with. We will get through this as an organization, but right now is a time to mourn and celebrate living conditions of Yordano.

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Sad to learn of Andy Marte’s demise this morning. He was a genuine person or persons ever responded you with a very warm smile.

Ventura had an unlikely start to his occupation. He left institution at 14 and was working on a creation gang when a member of his family told him about local baseball tryouts. He was good enough to secure a target in the Royals Dominican academy, which was the start of a occupation that they are able to take him to the World Series twice.

On Sunday, two of the team-mates who played alongside him in the Royals championship paid tribute to Ventura, whose nickname was Ace. I love you Ace. I dont know what to say other than Im going to miss you a lot. RIP ACE, tweeted third baseman Mike Moustakas.

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I love you Ace. I don’t know what to say other then I’m going to miss you a lot. RIP ACE.

I love you my brother, wrote first baseman Eric Hosmer. Im in skepticism and dont know what to say. I love you ACE.

Marte touched 21 home runs in a vocation that took in sorceries at the Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks and the Indians. He had spent the past two seasons with the KT Wiz in South Korea.

We are deeply saddened be informed about the shocking pas of Andy Marte and Yordano Ventura, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, Tony Clark, said in a statement. Its never easy to lost a member of our sorority, and there are no messages to describe the feeling of misplacing two young men in the primary of their lives. Our thoughts and devotions go out to their families, sidekicks, team-mates and followers throughout the United States and Latin America.

Ventura and Martes demises come less than six months after the Miami Marlins pitcher Jos Fernandez was killed in a boating collision in September. Ventura was also a close friend of the St Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Tavares, who was killed in a car gate-crash in 2014.

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Some conglomerates still use female simulations in their market expeditions

Sex sells. It’s an old mantra, but one which the car industry has been wedded to for many years.

Since the 1960 s and 70 s, it has been common at the major motor shows to see examples next to the latest glossy machinery.

Here in Geneva this year, there are perhaps fewer examples on the stands than there have been in the past – but they are still very visible.

So in the 21 st Century, in persons under the age of #MeToo, what are we to shape of such attitudes?

I considered I’d expect some of the women who work at the show.

If you’ve never been to one of these events before, there are a few things to bear in mind.

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Media captionShould firms still use simulations to sell vehicles?

Firstly, the clientele on the press and trade daytimes is very masculine. Serviceman in suits are the dominant produce.

That seems to reflect the makeup of an industry in which exclusively two mainstream CEOs are girls; Mary Barra at General Motor and Citroen’s Linda Jackson.

However, there are lots of women working here. Many of them are hostess, employed to welcome patrons onto the stands, and provide information on the cars to inquisitive passers-by.

Their role is very different to that of the simulates. Their dress is generally smart, but businesslike, their behaviour is affable – and they are formidably well-informed about the cars they look after.

There are male multitudes as well, but they are a lot harder to find.

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The automobile industry has been using female simulations to exchange gondolas for long time

Wandering all over the demonstrate, I gratified Julia – an Italian student, here to deserve some fund while she works towards a degree in international relations.

Her job at the show is to take photographs of showgoers next to a classic automobile, in front of an advertising hoarding. I ask her what she thoughts of the glamour models.

“It’s not a good place right now to find females like this, ” she says.

“But at the same time, ladies are responsible for themselves, they formed their choice”

She likewise told me consolation was important – she guessed parties should not be asked to wear high heels for long periods, for example.

I’m no expert, but some of the clothings worn by the prototypes here surely don’t search designed for solace.

A little afterward, while filming on David Brown Automotive’s stand, I speak to Michelle Gay.

She is the marketing director for the company – a specialist manufacturer which creates exquisite motifs that hark back to classic automobiles of the 1960 s.

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Using female models is a way of going media coverage for some manufacturers

But sometimes purchasers question her to pose for photos in front of its produces, something she replies she does not really appreciate.

Ms Gay concludes beings should be looking at beautiful gondolas, rather than beautiful people – and gondola companies should employment experts to draw attention to their inventions.

“Ideally you go for knowledgeable beings, parties that can talk about the products”, she says.

“Everybody’s here to insure automobiles. People supposed to be here talking about the cars, and not go looking for nice concepts that are there to be addressed, that aren’t autoes! “

But Anna Vinson differs. She’s a Youtuber – and has come to the establish to gather textile for her canal, Girl on Swiss Roads.

“I was a glamour modeling myself, when I was very, very young”, she tells me.

“I actually quite like it. I thoughts the cars are beautiful, but I think you need a little bit additional to introduce them to life”

Anna thinks it is possible to be only too politically correct.

“It’s not about considering wives like a piece of flesh – I disagree with that. I’m a woman, and I like experiencing beautiful females myself”, she says.

“I think they contribute a nice fragment of spice”.

There’s no question that female frameworks do lure a lot of attention at auto sees.

The stands where they are striking poses are invariably surrounded by photographers, in a way that others are not.

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The audience on the press and sell periods at motor substantiates is generally very masculine

For smaller both manufacturers and niche operators, that kind of tending can be very valuable.

For mainstream carmakers it’s different. It was always hard to see how sitting a supermodel on the bonnet of an uninspiring sedan could hope to improve sales.

This week, the leaders of a handful of major manufacturers told me they no longer had any use for female frameworks on their stands.

But without a doubt, some exotic labels still try to sell a classic masculine fiction. Get the( very costly) vehicle, and you’ll get the girl.

It seems sexism, for some, can still be very profitable. And it’s hard to see that changing.